3 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes
By Ibrahim Barzak and Mohammed Daraghmeh / AP GAZA CITY: Israeli airstrikes killed three Palestinians including a schoolboy in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, officials said, while Gaza rocket squads fired…
Travel groups look east for 2012 bright spots
By Victoria Bryan and Maria Sheahan / Reuters BERLIN: With a weak western European economy, fear of political unrest in North Africa and a cruise business hit by the Costa Concordia…
Egypt core inflation 7.3 pct in February
By Reuters CAIRO: Egypt's core consumer price inflation quickened to 7.3 percent in the 12 months to February from 6.86 percent in January, the central bank said on Sunday. Core…
Egypt Suez Canal revenue down 1 pct in year to Feb
By Reuters CAIRO: Revenue from Egypt's Suez Canal inched down 1 percent in the year to February, the Egyptian Information Portal website showed on Saturday. Revenue fell to $381.4 million in…
Egypt retreats further from eight-month high
By Reuters CAIRO: Egypt's benchmark index dropped for a second day, retreating further from an eight-month high reached last week when optimism grew that Egypt was recovering from a year…
Egypt looking at energy subsidies to cut deficit
By Patrick Werr and Sherine El Madany / Reuters CAIRO: Egypt is pinning its hopes on natural gas to help it reduce energy subsidies that are eating up 20 percent of…
‘Tank Girl’: A failed, tired exercise in shock tactics
By Mariam Hamdy Currently showing at Misr Gallery in Zamalek is the much anticipated, hugely buzzed about exhibit “Tank Girl” by Nadine Hammam. Art lovers were looking forward to the usually…
‘Tank Gir’: A failed, tired exercise in shock tactics
Currently showing at Misr Gallery in Zamalek is the much anticipated, hugely buzzed about exhibit “Tank Girl” by Nadine Hammam. Art lovers were looking forward to the usually controversial works…
Creating new spaces for Muslim youth in the UK
By Marium Sattar LONDON: While sitting across from me in a café near the British Museum in London, a British Iraqi friend recently told me, "I've lived here all my life…
Japan’s resilience lessons
By Margareta Wahlström NEW YORK: Buried in the coverage of last year’s Great East Japan Earthquake is a success story of which the world should not lose sight, because it…